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Ṣayd

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Gender
Female
Social role
  • Enslaved person

Description / Bio

Enslaved woman possibly mentioned in family letters, ca. twelfth or thirteenth century. The letters mention that Ṣayd seeks to marry a person who was enslaved by Ibn Miṣbāḥ. Ṣayd's legal status as free or enslaved is unclear in these epistolary references. (Information from PGP and Craig Perry, Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt, Appendix 1, no. 93)

Matthew Dudley, "Ṣayd," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/sayd-2/, accessed February 9, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/sayd-2/